Be prepared for blowback if Medicaid expansion dies

5:40 PM,
Apr. 27, 2013

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MINDY BATTLES

Sometimes a different name revitalizes an old concept. Call it what you will, but "The Ohio Plan" is fast becoming a new term associated with Medicaid expansion. Earlier this year, Gov. John Kasich introduced into the biennial budget a plan for Medicaid expansion. Under this plan, recommendations were made to expand Medicaid for people living 138 percent under the federal poverty level. Potentially this could have assisted nearly 600,000 uninsured Ohioans, especially adults without children. There are over eleven million people living in Ohio and nearly two million of the population ...